Mixed blessings : gender and religious fundamentalism cross culturally / edited by Judy Brink and Joan Mencher.
Contributor(s): Brink, Judy | Mencher, Joan P
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Routledge, 1997Description: vi, 275 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0415911850 (hbk.); 0415911869 (pbk.)Subject(s): Religious fundamentalism | Women and religionDDC classification: 200/.82 LOC classification: BL238 | .M59 1997Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.Item type | Current library | Shelving location | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / Joan Mencher -- The peace that passes all understanding : violence, the family and fundamentalist knowledge in Colombia / Elizabeth Brusco -- Buddhist nuns : protests, struggle, and the reinterpretation of orthodoxy in Sri Lanka / Hema Goonatilake -- Islamic "fundamentalism" and female empowerment among the muslims of Hainan Island, People's Republic of China / Keng-Fong Pang -- Voices from the margins : evangelical feminist negotiation in the public debate of a small denomination in the United States / Janet Stocks -- A separate unity : female networking and status in a contemporary Mormon polygynous commune / Janet Bennion -- A strange road home : adult female converts to classical Pentecostalism / Nancy L. Eiesland -- Ideology and identity : Islamism, gender, and the state in Sudan / Sondra Hale -- Ideal womanhood in postrevolutionary Iran / Erika Friedl -- Giving birth to a settlement: maternal thinking and political action of Jewish women on the west bank / Tamar El-Or and Gideon Aran -- A mixed blessing: the Majales - shi'a women's rituals of mourning in northwest Pakistan / Mary Elaine Hegland -- Lost rituals: sunni muslim women in rural Egypt / Judy Brink -- Fundamentalist politics and women in India / Ilina Sen -- Conclusion. The mixed blessings of women's fundamentalism: democratic impulses in a patriarchal world / Janet L. Bauer.